(By staff correspondent Aleksandr Mineyev. Novayagazeta, Nov. 25, 2016, p. 6. Complete text:) Brussels - On
Wednesday [Nov. 23], the European Parliament adopted a resolution
to counteract [anti-EU] propaganda by Russia and the Islamic State
[of Iraq and Sham, aka ISIS] (an organization banned in Russia).
The document is controversial in terms of some of its assessments
and proposed actions. The resolution was approved by 304 votes to
179, with 208 abstentions. Not a brilliant tally, but still enough
[to pass].

Associating together in one document the Russian state and
radical Islamist nongovernmental organizations like ISIS and Al
Qaeda, both of which are banned in Russia, caused disputes even
among the authors themselves.

Eugen Freund, a shadow rapporteur and former journalist from
Austria, believes it was wrong to do so because it is wrong to lump
together state policy and terrorism. Primary rapporteur Anna
Fotyga, a former Polish foreign minister, and other shadow
rapporteurs disagree with him: They claim they are not putting
Russia on par with ISIS. This is only about methods and goals.

It is hard to argue with the conclusions of the operative
clause.

It comments that hostile propaganda against the EU is part of
"hybrid warfare" with the goal of "distorting truths, provoking
doubt, dividing Member States, engineering a strategic split
between the European Union and its North American partners and
paralyzing the decision-making process, discrediting the EU
institutions and transatlantic partnerships, which play a
recognized role in the European security and economic
architecture."

In the European parliamentarians’ view, this propaganda
undermines and erodes the European narrative based on democratic
values, human rights and the rule of law. It incites fear and
uncertainty in EU citizens, as well as presenting "hostile state
and nonstate actors as much stronger than they are in reality."

The deputies assert that Russia uses contacts with EU
...

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